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Man Definition

man

See also Appendix:Variations of "man", -man, man-, and the man

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English

Man (disambiguation) on Wikipedia

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Old English mann (“human being, person, man”), from Proto-Germanic *mann- (“human being, man”), from Proto-Indo-European *man- (“man”). Cognate with West Frisian and Dutch man (“man”), German Mann (“man”), Norwegian mann (“man”), Russian муж (muž, “male person”), Avestan (manuš), Sanskrit मानुषः (mānuṣ, “human being”).

Noun

man (plural men)

  1. (collective) All humans collectively; mankind, humankind. Also Man.
    • 1647, Westminster Shorter Catechism, question 10:
      How did God create man?
      God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.
  2. An abstract person; a person of either gender, usually an adult.
    every man for himself
  3. An adult male human.
  4. A mensch; a person of integrity and honor.
    • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
      He's more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house...
  5. A piece or token used in board games such as chess.
  6. A person, often male, with duties or skills associated with a specified thing.
    I always wanted to be a guitar man on a road tour, but instead I'm a flag man on a road crew.
  7. A person, usually male, who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing.
    Some people prefer apple pie, but me, I'm a cherry pie man.
Usage notes
The most common modern sense of the word is (an adult male human), not (a generic human) or (humankind), which explains the awkwardness of the following sentence:
  • Man, like other mammals, breastfeeds his young.[1]
Nonsexist language advocates recommend the use of human, human being, humankind, and person depending on contexts instead of man.
Synonyms
See also
Derived terms
Terms derived from man
Translations
adult male human
  • Latgalian: veirs m.
  • Latin: vir (la), -i m., mas (la) m.
  • Latvian: vīrs (lv) m.
  • Lithuanian: vyras (lt) m.
  • Lojban: nanmu (jbo)
  • Low Saxon: Mann (nds) m.
  • Macedonian: маж (mk) (maž) m., човек (mk) (čóvek) m.
  • Malay: lelaki (ms)
  • Malayalam: പുരുഷന്‍ (ml) (purushan), ആണ് (ml) (aanu)
  • Maltese: raġel (mt)
  • Manx: fer (gv)
  • Maori: tāne (mi)
  • Mapudungun: wentru
  • Marathi: माणूस (mr)
  • Mari: марий
  • Maricopa: ipa
  • Megleno-Romanian: bărbat m.
  • Mi'kmaq: jinem
  • Michif: please add this translation if you can
  • Mongolian: эр хүн (mn) (er hün), хүн (mn) (hün)
  • Navajo: hastiin
  • Neapolitan: omm
  • Nepali: manav (ne), maanche (ne)
  • Ngarrindjeri: korni
  • Northern Sami: almmái
  • Norwegian: mann (no) m.
  • Novial: viro
  • O'odham: cheoj
  • Occitan: òme (oc) m.
  • Ojibwe: inini
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    Cyrillic: мѫжь (mǫžĭ) m.
    Glagolitic: ⰏⰨⰆⰠ (mǫžĭ) m.
  • Old English: mann (ang), guma (ang), hæleþ (ang), secg (ang), beorn (ang), wer (ang)
  • Old French: hom, homme
  • Old Provençal: omne
  • Old Prussian: wīrs
  • Persian: مرد (fa) (mærd)
  • Pitjantjatjara: wati
  • Polish: mężczyzna (pl) m., pan (pl) m. (deferential), człowiek (pl) m. (nondeferential)
  • Portuguese: homem (pt) m., varão (pt) m.
  • Powhatan: nimarew
  • Punjabi: ਆਦਮੀ (pa) (ādmī) m.
  • Rapa Nui: tangata
  • Romanian: bărbat (ro) m.
  • Romansch: um (rm) m.
  • Russian: мужчина (ru) (mužčína) m.
  • Samogitian: vīrs m.
  • Scots: mannie
  • Scottish Gaelic: fear (gd) m., duine (gd) m.
  • Skolt Sami: åålm
  • Slovak: muž (sk)
  • Slovene: moški (sl) m., mož (sl) m.
  • Spanish: varón (es) m., hombre (es) m.
  • Swedish: man (sv), karl (sv) c.
  • Tamil: ஆண் (ta) (āṇ)
  • Taos: sə́onena
  • Telugu: పురుషుడు (te) (purushuDu), మగవాడు (te) (magavaaDu)
  • Tetum: mane
  • Thai: ผู้ชาย (th) (pôo chaai), ชาย (th) (chaai)
  • Tok Pisin: man (tpi)
  • Tswana: monna (tn)
  • Tupinambá: abá
  • Turkish: adam (tr), erkek (tr)
  • Ukrainian: чоловік (uk) (čolovík) m.
  • Urdu: آدمی (ur) (ādmī) m., مرد (ur) (mard) m., پرش (ur) (puruṣ) m.
  • Vietnamese: đàn ông (vi)
  • Volapük: man (vo) sg., mans (vo) pl., himen (vo)
  • Warlpiri: wati
  • Welsh: gŵr (cy) m., dyn (cy) m.
  • West Frisian: man (fy) c.
  • Western Apache: nnee, nndee, ndee, indee
  • !Xóõ: tâa a̰a
  • Yiddish: מאַן (yi) (man) m., מענער (yi) (mener) pl.
human
piece in board games
  • Japanese: (ja) (いし, ishi), (ja) (こま, koma)
  • Kurdish: berik (ku)
  • Macedonian: човече (mk) (čóvečе) n.
  • Norwegian: brikke (no) m.
  • Polish: pionek (pl) m.
  • Russian: фигура (ru) (figúra) f.
  • Spanish: peón (es) m.
  • Swedish: spelpjäs (sv) c.
  • Turkish: taş (tr)
  • West Frisian: minske (fy) c.
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked
  • Central Sierra Miwok: naŋˑa-
  • Occitan: òme
  • Pitjantjatjara: wati

Interjection

man

  1. An interjection used to place emphasis upon something or someone.
    Man, that was a great catch!
    (Geordie) Giv'is a bottle of dog man! (dog = beer / brown ale)
Quotations

Etymology 2

From Middle English mannen, from Old English mannian, ġemannian (“to man, supply with men, populate, garrison”), from mann (“human being, man”). Cognate with Dutch mannen (“to man”), German mannen (“to man”), Swedish manna (“to man”), Icelandic manna (“to supply with men, man”).

Verb

man (third-person singular simple present mans, present participle manning, simple past and past participle manned)

  1. (transitive) To supply with staff or crew (of either sex).
    The shipped was manned with a small crew.
  2. (transitive) To take up position in order to operate something.
    Man the machine guns!
Derived terms
Translations
to supply with staff or crew
  • German: bemannen (de)
  • Greek: επανδρώνω (el) (epandrono)
  • Icelandic: manna (is)
  • Kurdish: dagirtin (ku), dagir kirin (ku)
  • Norwegian: bemanne (no)
to take up position in order to operate something
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked
  • Hebrew: לאייש (he) (le’aiesh), לספק כוח אדם (he) (le’sipek kokha adam)

References

  1. ^ Nonsexist Language Guideline, the University of New Hampshire.

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Anagrams

Afrikaans

Noun

man (plural manne)

  1. man

Albanian

Noun

man m. (indefinite plural mana, definite singular mani, definite plural manat)

  1. mulberry tree

Chinook Jargon

Etymology

From English man.

Noun

man

  1. man

Synonyms

Antonyms

Adjective

man

  1. male

Antonyms

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse mǫn, from Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“neck”).

Pronunciation

Noun

man c. (singular definite manen, plural indefinite maner)

  1. mane (longer hair growth on back of neck of a horse)
Inflection
Inflection of man
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative man manen maner manerne
genitive mans manens maners manernes
Related terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse menn, plural form of man. Transition to pronoun by German influence.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

man (indefinite pronoun)

  1. you
  2. they, people
  3. we, one

Etymology 3

See mane.

Pronunciation

Verb

man

  1. imperative of mane

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on: Man

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Pronunciation

Etymology

From Old Dutch man, from Proto-Germanic *mann-. Cognate with English man, German Mann.

Noun

man m. (plural mannen, diminutive mannetje or manneke)

also has Archaic plurals: lieden and lui
  1. man human male, either adult or age-irrespective
    De oude man en de zee.
    The Old Man and the Sea.
  2. husband, male spouse

Derived terms

Related terms

Anagrams

Faroese

Verb

man

  1. First and third-person singular present of munna
    I, he, she, it will / may

Conjugation

munna,
number singular plural
person first second third all
Indicative eg tú hann / hon tað vit, tit, teir / tær / tey tygum
Present man manst man munnu/munna
Past mundi mundi mundi mundu
Imperative tú tit
Present — — ! — — !
Infinitive munna
Pres. part. —
Past part. —
Supine munnað

Derived terms

Pronoun

man

  1. (colloquial) one, they (indefinite third-person singular pronoun)

Synonyms

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin manus.

Noun

man m. (plural mans)

  1. hand

Galician

Etymology

From Latin manus. Compare Catalan mà, French main, Italian mano, Occitan man, Portuguese mão, Romanian mână, Sardinian manu, Spanish mano.

Noun

man f. (plural mans)

  1. (anatomy) hand

German

Etymology

From the same source as Mann ("adult male").[1]

Pronunciation

Pronoun

man

  1. (indefinite) one, they (indefinite third-person singular pronoun)
    was man sehen kann — what one can see
    • 2008, Frank Behmeta, Wenn ich die Augen öffne, page 55:
      Kann man es fühlen, wenn man schwanger ist?
      If a person is pregnant, can he feel it?

Usage notes

References

  1. ^ Theo Stemmler: Wie das Eisbein ins Lexikon kam, page 15, ISBN 978-3-411-72291-4.

Gothic

Romanization

man

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌽

Icelandic

Noun

man n.

  1. maid

Verb

man

  1. Past, first person of the verb of að muna I remember
    Ég man ekki.
    I don't remember.
  2. Past, third person of the verb of að muna he/she/it remembered
    Hann man hvað gerðist.
    He remembered what happened.

Japanese

Noun

man (hiragana まん)

  1. [[#Japanese|]]: ten thousand
  2. マン: man

Kurdish

Verb

man

  1. to stay
  2. to remain

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mán

  1. (first-person singular) dative form of aš.
    Duok man tą knygą.
    Give me that book.

Low German

Conjunction

man

  1. only, but

Synonyms

Mandarin

Romanization

man

  1. Nonstandard spelling of mān.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of mán.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of mǎn.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of màn.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Norwegian

Pronoun

man

  1. you
  2. one
  3. they
  4. people

Noun

man

  1. (horse) mane

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin manus.

Pronunciation

Noun

man f. (plural mans)

  1. hand

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mann-.

Noun

man m.

  1. human, person
  2. man

Descendants

Old English

Etymology 1

From mann.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

man

  1. one, someone, they (often used to form the passive)

Etymology 2

Cognate with Old Saxon mēn, Old High German mein, Old Norse mein.

Pronunciation

Noun

mān n.

  1. crime, sin, wickedness

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mann-.

Noun

man m.

  1. man

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mann-.

Noun

man m.

  1. human, person
  2. man

Scottish Gaelic

Preposition

man

  1. Alternative form of mar.

Usage notes

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish maþer, mander, from Proto-Germanic *mann-.

Pronunciation

Noun

man c.

  1. a man (adult male human)
  2. a husband
  3. a member of a crew, workforce or (military) troop
    I äldre tider sa man att björnen ägde sju mans styrka men en mans vett.
    In older times, they said the bear has the strength of seven men but the sense of one man.
Declension
Declension of man 1, 2, 3
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative man mannen män männen
genitive mans mannens mäns männens
Declension of man 3
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative man mannen mannar, man mannarna
genitive mans mannens mannars, mans mannarnas

Pronoun

man c. (accusative/dative en, plural ena, possesive ens, reflexive sig, possessive reflexive common sin, possessive reflexive neuter sitt, possessive reflexive plural sina)

  1. (indefinite) one, they; people in general
    vad man kan se
    what one can see
Declension
Swedish personal pronouns
subject object possessive
singular full full common neuter plural
1st person jag mig min mitt mina
2nd person du dig din ditt dina
3rd person masculine han honom hans
3rd person feminine hon henne hennes
3rd person common den den dess
3rd person neuter det det dess
3rd person indefinite man en ens
3rd person reflexive — sig sin sitt sina
plural
1st person vi oss vår vårt våra
2nd person ni er er ert era
3rd person de dem deras
3rd person reflexive — sig sin sitt sina

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mǫn, from Proto-Germanic *manō.

Pronunciation

Noun

man c.

  1. mane (of a horse or lion)
Declension
Declension of man
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative man manen manar manarna
genitive mans manens manars manarnas

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English man.

Noun

man

  1. man (adult male human)

Antonyms

Derived terms

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English man.

Noun

man

  1. husband
  2. a married man
  3. any man

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian mano

Noun

man f. inv.

  1. hand

Volapük

Noun

man (plural mans)

  1. man

Declension

declension of man
singular plural
nominative man mans
genitive mana manas
dative mane manes
accusative mani manis
predicative manu manus
vocative o man! o mans!

Welsh

Pronunciation

Noun

man

  1. place.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
man fan unchanged unchanged

West Frisian

Pronunciation

Noun

man (plural men or manlju)

  1. man
  2. husband

Wik-Mungkan

Noun

man

  1. neck

Derived terms

 

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